Improvement in hoop-skirts



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

PERMELIA E. SHEFFIELD, OF PONTIAC, MICHIGAN.

`IMPROVEMENT IN HooPsK|RTs- Specicatiou forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,785, dated May l5, 1866.

To all 107mm it may concern:

.Beit known that I, PERMELIA E. SHEE- FIELD, of Pontiac, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoop-Skirts; and I do hereby decla-re that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, ret'- erenee being had to the annexed drawing, made part ot' this specification.

In the drawing is represented a perspective view of au ordinary steelwire hoop-skirt showing my improvement.

My improvement consists in applying the apron A to the skirt. It is made ot' a Wide piece ot' tape or series of pieces placed side by side. The tape thus employed is Woven with the ordinary pocket through which the Wires pass. This apron is applied upon the frontof PERMELIA E. SHEFFIELD.

Witnesses:

CHARLES DRAPER, J As. A. WEEKS. 

